Cap



May 19, 1931. F: v g 1,806,225

CAP

Filed April 26. 19:50 2 SheetS-Sheet 1 May 19', 1931. F. VERNON CAPFiled April 26. 1930 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 .1 L Fel'nan.

into use.

Patented May 19, 1931 FREDERICK L. VERNON, OF NEWTON, IOWA Applicationfiled April 26, 1930.

The present invention seeks to provide a cap of cheap material andconstruction which will be well adapted for advertising purposes and maybe worn in parades, picnic parties 5 and like occasions and is welladapted for use by cooks, bakers and others who customarily wear capswhile at work, the cap being of such low cost that when it becomessoiled it may be thrown away and a new cap brought The invention isillustrated in the accompanying drawings and will be hereinafter firstfully described and then mor par ticularly defined in the appendedclaims.

In the drawings:

Figure l is a perspective view of the improved cap showing it as itappears when in use,

Fig. 2 is a side elevation, partly broken away, showing the cap as itappears before being put in use,

Fig. 3 is a transverse section on the line 33 of Fig. 2, and

Fig. 4 is a plan view of the blank which is folded to produce the cap.

5 In making a cap according to the present invention, there is provideda blank which, as shown in Fig. 4, consists of a body of paper or someother cheap material which is scored centrally transversely upon theline indicated 9 at 1, and has side portions 2, the end edges of whichare made to converge slightly, as

shown at 3, the meeting point of the converging edges being at the endsof the score or crease 1. At the ends of the panels or side members 2are tongues or flaps 4 which are adapted to be folded up against theouter sides of the side members 2, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2, andthereby reinforce the lower edge of the cap and also provide space uponwhich advertisements may be displayed. The tongues or flaps 4 terminateshort of the end edges of the panels or side members 2, as shown at 5,and immediately adjacent diagonally opposite shoulders 5 narrow flaps 6are formed upon the opposite end edges of the side panels 2, .as clearlyshown in Fig. 4. In folding the blank to produce the cap, the blank isfirst folded upon the central crease or score 1 so that the side panels2 will be brought together, as indicated in Fig. 3, and

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the end flaps or tongues 6 are then folded around the respective meetingedges of the side panels, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2, to close the endsof the cap, it being understood that these flaps or tongues 6 are coatedwith an adhesive on one side. At intermediate points in the length ofthe fold 1 diverging lines 7 extend therefrom to the respective endedges of the side panels and in folding the blank to produce the cap thetriangular areas defined by said lines and the end edges of the blankare folded inwardly, as shown at 8, to form couplings between the sidesand crown of the completed cap and also permit expansion of the cap atits ends to accommodate a head upon which the cap is to be worn.Extending from the meeting points of the lines 7-7 and formingsubstantially .continuations of the same are short scores 9 which areprovided to define the folds to be P given the cap in shaping the crown,and spaced from the scores 9 and disposed at opposite sides of thecentral line 1 are pairs of scores 10 which are intended to define thesides of the crown portion of the cap, there being portions between thescores 9 and 10 left solid or plain so that when the cap is worn it willnot disintegrate if it should happen to be wet.

The cap is furnished in a flat condition,

as will be understood upon reference to Fi 2 and 3, being produced byfolding the triangular portions 8 inwardly and thereby bringing the sidepanels 2 together, whereupon the tongues 6 may be fastened to close andsecure the ends of the cap, as has been described and as shown. Theflaps 4 are then folded upwardly against the sides of the cap so that itwill appear, as shown in Figs.

2 and 3. WVhen the cap is to be worn, the upper fold of the same iscrushed downwardly and inwardly upon lines defined by the end scores 9and by a pair of scores 10 so that the cap will assume the shape shownin Fig.

1. The crushing of the cap is along the outer scores 10 if the head ofthe wearer is large but to fit the cap to a smaller head the crushing ison the inner scores 10.

The cap may be very rapidly produced at a very slight cost and may bevariously ornamented and, of course, may have any desired advertisementsdisplayed upon its sides. When soiled so that it is no longer sightly,it may be discarded and a new cap Worn ithout subjecting the wearer toany appreciable expense.

Having thus described the invention, I

claim 1. A blank fora cap having side panels I and adapted to be foldedupon a central trans-' Verse line, securing flaps" at diagonallyopposite corner portions of the panels each,

adapted to be folded across the meeting edges of the panels When theyare broug-httogether and "secured to the companion panels, the panels'-havin-g folding lines 'ma'rk'ed thereon rl-iverging from "the centraltransverse line to the adjacent end edges *ofthe respective *p'a nelswhereby a single coupling fold may be formed Within the crown oi the-cap, and the panel's being furtherf scored on short I Flines di Verginginwardly "from the last-mentioned fol d lin'e onwoth'er short linesparallel-with the"central tra-nsverseffold line arranged in pairs and{spaced from said di-- verging scores. 7 g 7 2. A -cap consisting ofside inembers folded together upon scent-m1 top "line, sealingtongueseach extending from "an-end edge of one side meni ber andlfolded-over andsecured to j the nieeting end edge-of "the other-sidemember, and anin -em ,expansible folds eX- tending inwardly from theuppercornersof the side members and integral therewith, the sideinembers b'ein'gscored on lines extending obliquely-downward from thenpper corners of said folds"and' eachthaying -a pair 01 scoresbelow'the' firstrnentioned sooresand'inspaced relation" thereto parallelwith the top edge o'fthe cap whereby the upper'portion of v "the'capn'iaybe 'fc'rushed to form a crown with substantially conical points t'ipstandin'g at the 5 ends thereof,

In'testimony whereof I afiix mysigna-ture.

FREDERI'GK'L. VERNON,

